Platanthera stenochila

Platanthera stenochila
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Orchidoideae
Tribe:	Orchideae
Subtribe:	Orchidinae
Genus:	Platanthera
Species:	P. stenochila
Binomial name
Platanthera stenochila X.H.Jin, Schuit., Raskoti & L.Q.Huang [1]
Synonyms [1]
Herminium angustilabreKing & Pantl. Monorchis angustilabris(King & Pantl.) O.Schwarz Androcorys angustilabris(King & Pantl.) Agrawala & H.J.Chowdhery Platanthera angustilabris(King & Pantl.) X.H.Jin, Schuit. & W.T.Jin, nom. illeg.

Platanthera stenochila is a species of flowering plant in the family Orchidaceae, native from east Nepal through the eastern Himalayas of India to south-central China (north-west Yunnan). ^[1]

Taxonomy

The species was first described in 1896, as Herminium angustilabre. It was later placed in either the genus Monorchis or the genus Androcorys, ^[1] both now included in Herminium . A molecular phylogenetic study in 2014 found that it was deeply embedded in a clade of Platanthera species, and so transferred it to that genus as Platanthera angustilabris(King & Pantl.) X.H.Jin, Schuit. & W.T.Jin. ^[2] However, this name had already been used for a different species, Platanthera angustilabris Seidenf., so was an illegitimate name. In 2015, an acceptable replacement name, Platanthera stenochila, was published. ^{[1] [3]}

References

1. "Platanthera stenochila", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families , Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew , retrieved 2018-03-19
2. Jin, Wei-Tao; Jin, Xiao-Hua; Schuiteman, André; Li, De-Zhu; Xiang, Xiao-Guo; Huang, Wei-Chang; Li, Jian-Wu & Huang, Lu-Qi (2014), "Molecular systematics of subtribe Orchidinae and Asian taxa of Habenariinae (Orchideae, Orchidaceae) based on plastid matK, rbcL and nuclear ITS" , Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 77: 41–53, doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.04.004, PMID   24747003
3. Raskoti, Bhakta Bahadur; Jin, Wei-Tao; Xiang, Xiao-Guo; Schuiteman, André; Li, De-Zhu; Li, Jian-Wu; Huang, Wei-Chang; Jin, Xiao-Hua & Huang, Lu-Qi (2016) [2015 online], "A phylogenetic analysis of molecular and morphological characters of Herminium (Orchidaceae, Orchideae): evolutionary relationships, taxonomy, and patterns of character evolution", Cladistics, 32 (2): 198–210, doi: 10.1111/cla.12125 , S2CID   83774047